I did not install my former background seperately, it is a default desktop background. Why ist this one at another palce?Anyway, the last files are all selectable, but none of them works. Ich can just choose betweek different single colors.

Re: [SOLVED][Gnome 3.8] no background image

Re: [SOLVED][Gnome 3.8] no background image

OK, sorry for my first post, I misunderstood your question. Indeed, in the control center I have access to official gnome wallpapers, to colors but not to my own images… I didn't realize it since I use Wally to change automatically my wallpaper.So, I confirm that Wally works fine, and that it is still possible to control the background image with dconf-editor.

Koven wrote:

I have an script to change my background every 10 minutes, since upgrade it's not working anymore. It's a small sciprt I found in internet..

This script acts directly on gsettings, so still works fine with gnome 3.8 :

Re: [SOLVED][Gnome 3.8] no background image

I'm more or less just posting a comment to follow this thread.

I am not able to have any wallpaper / background .. and if i enable nautilus active desktop (ie: icons, files, folders on desktop), i get 'rendering trails' when i move windows, so for now i have disabled nautilus from managing the desktop and am stuck with a black background. (unfortunately).

none of the methods mentioned here, that i tried made any difference ~ but i am also using a non-standard / unsupported gnome-ish desktop.

hopefully, it just comes down to fixing my theme, which by looking at gtk-3.8 themes, i have yet to figure out. (maybe it's just a bug, as suggested?)

Re: [SOLVED][Gnome 3.8] no background image

Not really solved, so much as a workaround. For me, it turned out to be using a non-default shell theme. Try resetting it to Adwita (default) using gnome-tweak-tool.

that is one way. (to fix it). and of course, i suppose you are right, we are working around it - not fixing it (yet).

there seem to be a few ways to work around it, and it seems to affect more than one just one 'shell'. (ie: gnome-shell/compiz)

The issue most definitely relates to some changes in nautilus, afaict from looking at commit logs; nautilus, when handling the desktop now paints an RGBA window (transparent) and only draws it's icons/folders/etc. Gnome-Shell then handles painting the desktop wallpaper. (behind)

- So in my case, i think i know why i am getting a black window -> I'm not running Gnome-shell (nor a fork), so there is no wallpaper being drawn. So the solution for me, is to use Gnome-flashback and/or using older version of nautilus or nemo (which do handle painting desktop wallpaper).

but there also could be some change required to my gtk+ theme, as well.... i haven't gotten that far yet, since fixing the ugly menu bug in themes being ported from gtk-3.6->3.8, (for me) was more important, (since i also worked around no background image issue, if even temporarily until i can fix it properly).

Re: [SOLVED][Gnome 3.8] no background image

I hit upon this issue myself over the weekend when I did a system update.I have 2 HP laptops. 1 older HP6715b (personal), and a newer EliteBook 8560w both of which I updated at the same time unfortunately.

In my case I get a dark grey background. At one stage during my attempts to recover from the update, my background was the Getty virtual console that was last visible.

Gnome-shell seems to work fine, at least as far as the background is concerned.But like many other I don't like or use Gnome-shell. I prefer the Gnome 2.x look and behaviour. I used to use Gnome 3 in fallback mode. But fallback mode has been replace with "Classic Mode" which is a half baked attempt to adapted Gnome-shell to the Gnome 2.x style, and doesn't implement half the features. I have resorted to creating a custom session similar to the gnome-flashback-session, which uses metacity and gnome-panel.

I can select a background image in the settings control panel and see it in the preview window. I've tried using both nautilus and nemo (nemo from the official repositories and nemo-git from AUR). I reset my themes to the defaults. Nothing seems to work.

The Gnome 3.8 update broke my entire desktop configuration. When I first logged in after the reboot all I got was a dark screen screen and with a light grey strip across the top (presumably my gnome-panel) and now window manager. I had to allow away my entire .config and reconfigure my desktop from scratch. I've since noticed that some of the themes I downloaded for Gnome 3.6 cause Gnome panel to lockup and display nothing but the strip across the top of the screen.

I have also noticed a few other things missing, such as the volume control and battery status notification applets.In addition my laptop hardware function controls for brightness, volume, mute, display selection and standby no longer work. Although this may be a separate systemd issue as a result of the update.

So, for me, this issue is not resolved.triplesquarenine seems to have a good handle on the issue. Is there any advise you can offer.